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Re:GitHub Copilot by anmk on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:55PM (#27682258)
I'm sure natfriedman will be thrilled to abolish IP and also apply this to the Windows source code. We can expect it on GitHub any minute!
Re:GitHub Copilot by breck on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:18PM (#27684176)
I used to work at Microsoft and occasionally would email Satya the same idealistic pitch. I know they have to be more conservative , but some of us have to envision where the math can take us and shout out loud about it, and hope they steer well. When I started at MS, my first week was heckled for installing Ubuntu on my windows machine. When I left, windows was shipping with Ubuntu. What may seem impossible today can become real if enough people push the ball forward together. I even hold out hope that someday BG will see the truth and help reduce the ovarian lottery by legalizing intellectual freedom.
Re:GitHub Copilot by cnp10 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @05:12AM (#27686504)
Talking about the ovarian lottery seems strange in a thread about an AI tool that will turn into a paid service.

No one will see the light at Microsoft. The "open" source babble is marketing and recruiting oriented, and some OSS projects infiltrated by Microsoft suffer and stagnate.

Re:GitHub Copilot by sombremesa on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:21AM (#27684826)
All I know is that if a lawsuit comes around for a company who tried to use this, Github et al won't accept an ounce of liability.